POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE USES OF MEDIA

Is Media The Problem?

Freedom Of Religion

Freedom Of Speech

Freedom Of Press

Freedom To Assemble

And Petition

Print fueled the

Protestant Reformation,

which did indeed destroy

the Church's pan-

European hold on

intellectual life. What the

16th-century foes of

print didn't imagine—

couldn't imagine—was

what followed: We built

new norms around newly

abundant and

contemporary literature.

We built new norms around

newly abundant and

contemporary literature.

Novels, newspapers,

scientific journals, the

separation of fiction and

non-fiction, all of these

innovations were created

during the collapse of the

scribal system, and all had

the effect of increasing,

rather than decreasing, the

intellectual range and

output of society.

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